Gönül Sen-Menzel: A Colorful Studio in the Palace Park

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These days, the palace park in Neuhaus is turning into a colorful open-air studio. A total of 64 amateur artists are being taught various techniques such as painting, sculpture and photography by five course leaders at the “Paderborn Summer Academy”. The Cologne-based lecturer Gönül Sen-Menzel (right) sees her painting course as a kind of “picture clinic”. In conversation with her “students” – here Heike Schnittger (37) from Paderborn – they examine what a picture might be “suffering” from, in order to then apply the right therapy. The Turkish-born artist uses the breaks in between to work on a series of her own. In passing, she dabs paint onto a total of 17 canvases laid out side by side. Gradually, works emerge that are similar to one another and yet each entirely their own. “For me, it’s like watering flowers,” she says.

Read more about this exhibition in the report ““What Matters Is Trying Things Out””.